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June Choe

I am a psycholinguist broadly interested in experimental approaches to the study of meaning, of various flavors. I use computational and behavioral methods to study how comprehenders parse linguistic input, both in real time and at different stages of language development.

Outside of linguistics research, I am passionate about data visualization, science communication, and the R programming language. I develop R packages and write technical blog posts about these topics in my spare time as a hobby.

Education

PhD. Student, Linguistics

Philadelphia, PA

University of Pennsylvania

current - 2020

  • Focus: psycholinguistics, language acquisition, quantitative methods

B.A., Linguistics (with Honors)

Evanston, IL

Northwestern University

2020 - 2016

  • Thesis: Prosodic focus strengthens semantic persistence

Research Experience

Graduate Researcher

Language and Cognition Lab

University of Pennsylvania

current - 2020

  • Developed web-based experimental techniques for probing real-time acquisition of novel words that are ambiguous in the specificity of meaning.

Undergraduate Researcher

Learning, Education, and Reading Neuroscience Lab

Northwestern Univeristy

2020 - 2019

  • Worked in a team of graduate students to screen over 2,000 abstracts in a meta-analysis project studying the Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) tasks as a predictor of dyslexia. Wrote R and Python scripts to snowball search scholarly databases and created a Shiny app for the analysis and visualizations citation networks.

Undergraduate Researcher

Aphasia and Neurolinguistics Research Lab

Northwestern University

2020 - 2019

  • Hand-filtered and analyzed EEG data from auditory perception experiments studying the sensitivity to thematic dependency violations in listeners with agrammatical aphasia.

Undergraduate Researcher

Prosody and Speech Dynamics Lab

Northwestern University

2020 - 2018

  • Transcribed audio files for phonetic and prosodic annotations in Praat and audited TextGrid outputs from forced alignment outputs.

Undergraduate Researcher

Syntax, Semantics, and Sentence Processing Lab

Northwestern University

2020 - 2018

  • Constructed and audited stimuli for sentence processing studies, and ran experiments with EyeLink eye-tracking machines.

Teaching Experience

Data Science for Studying Language and the Mind

Department of Linguistics

University of Pennsylvania

Current - 2020

  • TA-ed and lectured for an annual introductory course on R and data science for linguistics and psychology majors. Contributed to course materials and managed a team of undergraduate TAs for leading weekly recitations.

Data Science Tutor

MindCORE

University of Pennsylvania

Current - 2020

  • Held weekly office hours for students and faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, offering consultations for research-related data science and statistical modelling tasks.

Selected Peer reviewed papers

Language-specific Effects on Automatic Speech Recognition Errors for World Englishes

Proceedings of COLING

N/A

2022

  • June Choe, Yiran Chen, May Chan, Aini Li, Xin Gao, and Nicole Holliday

Training and typological bias in ASR performance for world Englishes

Proceedings of INTERSPEECH

N/A

2022

  • May Chan, June Choe, Yiran Chen, Aini Li, Xin Gao, and Nicole Holliday

Rapid automatized naming (RAN) as a kindergarten predictor of future reading in English: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Reading Research Quarterly

N/A

2022

  • Sean McWeeny, Jinnie S. Choi, June Choe, Alexander LaTourette, Megan Y. Roberts, and Elizabeth S. Norton

The acquisition of subordinate nouns as pragmatic inference

Under-Review (copy available upon request.)

N/A

2022

  • June Choe and Anna Papafragou

Selected Data Science Talks and Writings

Cracking open ggplot internals with ggtrace

RStudio::conf(2022)

N/A

2022

  • Talk introducing a reframing of the grammar of graphics in functional programming logic for experienced users of the ggplot2 package in R.

Stepping into ggplot2 internals with ggtrace

UseR! 2022

N/A

2022

  • Talk introducing the internal workings of the ggplot2 package in R for aspiring extension package developers.

Demystifying delayed aesthetic evaluation

yjunechoe.github.io

N/A

2022

  • Blog post discussing the theoretical motivation behind delayed assignment of aesthetic mappings in the grammar of graphics, with a walkthrough of the metaprogramming implementational details.

Setting up and debugging custom fonts

yjunechoe.github.io

N/A

2021

The correlation parameter in mixed effects models

yjunechoe.github.io

N/A

2020

  • Overview of the random effects correlation estimates in the output of mixed effects models, focusing on their interpretation and implications for model building.